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Half our team were in the England game that won a penalty shoot out for once.
Against Croatia Kane was playing more of a midfield player due to the lack of quality England have there. Against Man U and Juve Kane was not 100% after his injury and wasn't at his best IMO and we struggled at times in those games due to that ( and didn't take our chances to put the game to bed also)
Yes we need to improve, but so does every club really. Real won the CL but got one draw and a loss to us and didn't win their league.
Kane wasn't injured prior to Juventus game, as I say I agree there's a select few teams that get past this level but I couldn't give a dam about those teams I want spurs to find a solution in breaking into that elite. I doubt I'm the only one who's tired of thinking, ah we were the better team though and being on the end of a defeat in a cup competition, hell dele himself said that we can't keep doing this. That's why for me, I'm not going to get ahead of myself until we get one of those big games in a cup competition and we find a solution to that consistent losing pattern.
The cynical side of me says we needed to sign 2 players, 1 quality midfielder who can help us control a game and another winger who could provide something different whilst also meaning our bench quality would improve if we needed to change the game. The optimistic side of me says Dembele coming off bench yesterday could be a great sign for how we can close down games going forward whilst Lamela being fit and either Son/Moura off the bench provides something different off the bench along with our players being old and having 9 players with the experience of reaching the world cup semi finals provides the mental fortitude to produce a solution to this particular problem.